Collapsible display box



Jan. 18, 1927. 1,614,811

L. THOMPSON COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY BOX Filed July 29, 1925 Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

UNITED s T-AT'ES PATENT @OFFICE.

COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY BOX.

Application filed July 29, 1925. Serial No. 46,851.

"My invention relates to improvements in ollapsible display boxes, and the object of he invention is to devise a box of this type in which means are incorporated in the body thereof for holding it in an upwardly inclined position from front to rear, and will thus dispense with any parts which may be severed therefrom or otherwise used to destroy its usefulness as a display box, and it consists essentially of the arrangement and construction of parts as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my box shown in the display position.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view through Figure 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar view to Figure 1 showing the parts partially separated for collapsing. v

Fig. 4 is a diminutive plan view of the blank out of which the parts are formed. 7

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

1 indicates the bottom wall of the box.

2 is the front wall and 3 the back wall, the front and back Walls 2 and 3 being turned up at right angles to the bottom wall 1 on the crease lines 2 and 3".

4 and 5 are tongues extending from the end edges of the bottom wall 1 from the base of the front wall 2 to a midway point on each end edge of the blank 1. The outer edges of the tongues 4 and 5 are preferably inclined inward as indicated at 4" and 5 and each bent upward upon the crease lines 4 and 5.

6 and 7 are tongues extending also from the ends of the bottom blank 1 from the inner edge of the tongues 4 and 5 to the ends of the crease line 3*. The outer edges 6 and 7 are inclined as shown for a purpose which will hereinafter appear.

8 is the top wall or cover of the box which folds upon the crease line 8 located at the junction between the walls 8 and 3.

9 is an end flap from the top wall 8 foldable upon the crease line 9*.

10 and 11 are the side walls of the box connected to the ends of the front wall 2 at the crease lines 1O and 11*. The lower ed 'es of the side walls 10 and 11 are provirIed with triangular extensions 10 and 11, such extensions extending below imaginary lines indicated by the dash lines 12 and 13,

and thus providing inclined "edges 12* and 13* corresponding to the inclined edges 6 and 7 X hereinafter referred to.

15 is a supplemental back wall connected to the outer end of the wall 11 and its extension 11 divided therefrom by the crease lines 15*.

16 is a tab forming an extension of the outer end of the supplemental back wall 15 and separated therefrom by the crease line 16*.

17 is a tab extending from the upper edge of the side wall 10 and separated therefrom by a crease line 17", and 18 is a tab extending from the upper edge of the side wall 11 and separated therefrom by a crease line 18*.

In order to setup the box the front and rear walls 1 and 2 are folded on the crease lines 2 and 3" to a position at right angles to the bottom wall 1. The tongues 4 and 5 are folded upward at right angles to the bottom wall 1 and the tongues 6 and 7 downward at right angles to the bottom wall 1. The side walls 10 and 11 are then folded inward to bear against the outer face of the tongues 4 and 5 and their triangular extensions 12 and 13 against the outer face of the tongues 6 and 7. In this position the supplemental back wall 15 is folded against the outer face of the back wall 3, its upper edge being in alignment with the upper edge of the back wall 3 formed by the crease line 8 and its lower edge parallel therewith in alignment with the lower end of the rearedge of the tongues 6 and 7, the lower edge of the front wall 2 and the inclined lower edges of the extensions 10 and 11 and the lower edge of the supplemental back wall resting upon the counter or other support. The end tab 16 is tucked in around the end of the back wall 3 between the inner face of the side wall 10 and the infolded tab 17 which is folded inward upon the crease line 17*. The tab 18 is also folded inward upon the crease line 18 thus completing the box which then rests upon its base in the inclined or display position as clearly indicated in Figures 1 and 2.

From this description it will be seen that I have devised a very simple form of collapsible box in which the means for holding the box in the inclined or display position is incorporated in the body of the box, and therefore cannot be separated therefrom as is so often done in cases such as where the means for holding the box in a display position is incorporated in the lid of a box and not in the body, and in which the lid or cover is utilized to hold the box in the display position by being turned back 'and under the body of the box.

What I claim as my invention is:

A collapsible display box comprising a bottom wall a front Wall and a rear wall,

[0 of an extension to each end of the bottom front wall passing therefrom around the sides and rear of the box to be connected together and to bear against both the upwardly and downwardly turned extension portions of the bottom wall.

LINDSAY THOMPSON. 

